The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-01
PERSONAL NOTES.
Some Interesting Facts Concerning Women
Who Are Noted in Literature and Art.

Special to the Indianapolis Iournai-
NEW YORK, April 80 wonder if you know
Mary Tillinghast. She used to be John La
Farge's partner and Vanderbilt paid her $50, 900
upon time for inventing sort OF
tapestry hanging for his houses. OF the women
who have taken up decorative art as an occupa-
ton she is. perhaps, conspicuously successful
as any. spent an hour in her studio in Wash
ington square yesterday, looking at the designs
for memorial window that she has just
pleted for Grace Church. New York.
1t would be hard to find an old New Yorker
who did not know the name of Benjamin F. Hut
ton. and who had not at his tongues end the
fairy tale-common enough in this land of the
free by the way-of the poor boy, the diligeut
youth, the plucky and lucky importer, the Alad
dns fortune the two beautiful daughters. the
capture of a couple of European titles, and the
final death of the merchant and his wife within
a few months of each other
By virtue Of the European titles-and they
had more virtue in them this time than often
falls to the lot of New York heiresses-the beau
tiful daughters now the Marquise de Portes
and the Countess de Moltke Hiedweld. To
Countess and Marquise then it some time since
occurred to erect in Grace Church stained
glass window to the memory of their untitled
whose motive supplied by Murillos Jacobs
Dream No piece of cathedral art had ever
been intrusted in this country to a woman, Ut
her designs were obviously the best that, needs
must precedent was broken through. The glass
has been prepared under her personal supervls-
ion, and the work is now practically completes.
Miss Tilinghast's treatment of her subject is
strong one, and shows not a trace of the hest
fancy usually ascribed the feminine brush.
The angels ascending and descending the ladder
full of life and vigor, and the window Will
take rank with the best of modern decorative
work.
Miss Rosina Emmet's studio. in Twenty third
street, has a busy, work-a-day look, not much
name and then. Miss Emmett who will be
Mrs. John Sherwood's dauchter-in law before
long. is a tall girl with very slim figure and
It would be of interest to know how many
young women Miss Catharine Wolfe assisted
through Vassar. and how many of her beneh-
Charles we're as ignorant of the source of their
help a girl student whom l ran across the
the other day. petite little senior, just homo
day of Miss Wolfes funeral how it came about
that her aunt had mysteriously been able to give
her a college education and meet the constantly
recurring tuition bills.
Jenny June has stepped into her new place as
editor of Godey's Lady's Book. and begun her
task theoretically as if she had not thirty
years and more of busy pen labor behind her. Il
have never known from the beginning" she said
few days ago. what it was to have difficulty
in finding work. but if editors and newspaper
readers have liked what / wrote, 1t must have
been of their own kindness for have never set
any value on it myself" Mrs Croly's daughter.
Vida is one of the most promising pupils of the
Lyceum Theater School of Acting.
Louisa NJ. Alcott, now and then as a special
favor, accorded to party of school girls on
pilgrimage to Concord oftener than to anybody
else. perhaps, takes from her desk An old fash
toned portfolio and exhibits a quantity CT
sketches after Turner made by her artist sister,
the original of Amy in Little Women" wEo
married and died abroad.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has had for long
time woman suffrage novel in hand. and it is to
be hoped that her persistent insomnia will some
time let her finish it.
It is of Ella Wheeler Wicox's whims Is
wear nothing but white indoors. Usually it is
some sort of white satin Kate Greenaway
robe high neeked and long -sleeved in the morn
ing, short sleeves and square neck at night.
Lucy Larcom and Whittier have good deal
of liking for each others society, and 1T happens
now and then that the Quaker poet leaves his
retreat at Oak Knoll Danvers, Mass, where he
spends more of his time of late years than at
Amesbury. to make one of his rare trips to the
village meeting Miss Larcom at the house of a
common friend. There under the gam bre1
roof that Miss Larcom has commemorated in
sprightly verse the two hold communion. while
the practical villagers passing outside irrever-
emily grumble not a little at Whittier's inveter-
ate habit of tying his horse and leaving him
standing across the sidewalk.
bright young niece of Maria Mitchell. OF
Vassar, is one of the proof-readers the new
Century dictionary. The work is gone over six
times, she tells me, additions and emendatlOnS
being made each time. The matter, IL is
ceived from the specialists who have charge of
different departments of the undertaking. is dis
tributed to girls who cut it up. arranging each
word. with the comments thereon, in its alpha
betical order and pasting all on big brown paper
sheets The typewriter is then called into requi-
sitlon. to make clean copy to put into the
hands of the printers. The proof-reader's task
is not an sasy one. for she is supposed to keep
track of mass of references and cross-refer-
ences bind'ng the different parts of the work to-
a uSr
drawers. and are vouminous in the aggregate
as the card catalogue of goods library. A
that if captalizes only proper names, and that
different sounds of the vowels and different
meanings of the same prefixes and sufixes.
designated by arithmetical powers, as al, az,
etc up pretty we'll in the Arabic numerals.
Nine. Scalchi ia very gracious to ambitious
musical students who seek her acquaintance.
antly. and they always leave her presence with
as ardent an admiration for her as woman as
they previously had for her as an artist
Miss Frances Willard is an ardent believer in
Mrs. Jenness Millers system of dress reform,
and has declared that she will work for it as she
does for temperance.
Miss Bertha Won Hillern, while talking of her
plans just before her recent departure for south
ern California asked why she didn't walk
there, and replied: How wish had the time
to do thati 1t would be great fun. And what
grand walk it would be. But can't spare the
time"
Mrs Elizabeth Custer wife of the martyred
General Custer. is tall and slender with black
hair and sympathetic gray-brown eyes. Her
face has been a handsome in earlier days,
but anxiety and heartrending sorrow have left
upon it many marks and lines and have made it
more Impressive than ever mere beauty could
have done
An Interview with Mrs. Custer.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
NEW YORK, April 30.-Sittng in her coy
suite of apartments on Eighteenth street. Mrs
Elizabeth Custer spoke enthusiastically of the
pleasure of her trip TO southern California. from